Record Number of MIIS Students Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

Elizabeth Romanoff Silva will use her Fulbright scholarship to research gender equality in the Slovak Republic.

May 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Six students from the Monterey Institute will receive U.S. Fulbright scholarship awards for the 2012-2013 academic year, the most in the Institute’s 57-year history. This surpasses last year's record of five, which had MIIS students landing more U.S. Fulbrights on a per capita basis than every top-ten school in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings, with a higher applicant success rate than all but one of these leading schools. A seventh Fulbright applicant from the Monterey Institute is an alternate and may still be selected.

Administered by the U.S. Department of State since 1946, the Fulbright Program is the country's flagship international educational exchange program, sending awardees to study, teach and conduct research in more than 155 countries each year.

"We are very proud of the Monterey Institute students who have been honored with this recognition," said Monterey Institute President Sunder Ramaswamy. "Their success in the extremely competitive Fulbright Program is a reflection of their hard work and focus on making a difference, as well as the quality of the education they received at the Monterey Institute."